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Digression: Symmetry Breaking (Or The Lack It) : (17, 3821: As We 1,2,. A
Digression: Symmetry Breaking (Or The Lack It) : (17, 3821: As We 1,2,. A
6 Heisenberg Magnets
331tis exactly proven that the ground state of the isotropic AF Heisenberg model
shows AF order for any S on the cubic lattice, and for S 1 1 on the square lattice
[95]. As for the S = 1/2 square lattice antiferromagnet, rigorous proofs of T = 0
order have to assume a sufficiently large anisotropy [444]. In spite of this technical
difficulty, the existence of AF order is universally accepted even for the isotropic
model.